Nauru is a “very pleasant island” where refugees and asylum seekers get better healthcare than in some towns in regional Australia...the people on Nauru and Manus [Island] now are almost all would-be economic migrants and if we give them what they want we will get more of them...Of course kids off Nauru is a good slogan but it’s a dreadful guide to policy because if we aren’t allowed to have kids on Nauru, just bring some kids with you and you automatically get to Australia.

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Australian Labor has shifted away from the worst excesses of neoliberalism that it once defended and put forward the most economically progressive platform it has in some time, one that addresses inequality, includes a commitment for 50 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2030, and rejects corporate tax cuts. However, it is not seeking the kind of radical transformation beyond a low-tax social-democratic model that British Labour has pursued. It has a handful of egalitarian tax proposals — limiting tax deductions for rental losses to new investment properties, halving the capital gains tax discount, taxing private trusts as companies, reducing superannuation tax concessions on wealthy Australians— but these measures are balanced by commitments to maintain budget surpluses at 1 percent of GDP, increase funding for private and religious schools, support the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, outbid the conservative Coalition on income-tax cuts, and maintain most of elements of the hard-line approach to refugees that “inspired” Matteo Salvini.